The most interesting part of Tinder was that horny women looking for a one night stand called it "short term dating" so they didn't feel slutty.

This is essential insight into how women want to act as if they are within societal norms by using definitions and innocuous language to make their booty call seem perfectly respectable.

When you turn this same skill towards the Internet, you have the advantage of being able to quickly filter out all the randomness, invested time that might go nowhere, and flakejobs. Tinder brought mainstream consciousness to the ease of casual hookups, simplifying internet sex dating to a swipe on your phone.

This was golden for a year or two until women started using it for ego gratification, creating accounts to get lots of virtual praise from guys who approve of their looks, with no intention of hooking up or ever dating.

A regular hookup is about quality time, not death spirals of quantity time that generate boredom from predictability.